Beeban Kidron Quotes

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

Whether it's buying products or researching what you're buying, or just becoming aware of what you're buying, you're saying so much with the money that you're spending.

When the consumer is strong, the American economy will be strong, so consumer protection actually serves economic growth and economic progress.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

If consumers are strong, if consumers are protected, if they can trust the marketplace and feel confident that they're not being cheated here and there, then consumers can drive this economy forward.

Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use.

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

What were we told to do? Get back on those airplanes. Shop in the malls. The trouble was that the only role they had for us was as consumers—not as citizens.

The prosperity of merchants depends on the purchasing power of the mass of the people.

Basic labeling and consumer information hasn’t been a chief priority, but hopefully now its starting to change.

I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.

As consumers, we are making choices, and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.

No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

Higher asset prices increase wealth and, with a lag, induce higher spending.

Each consumer has the power of their wallet and their voice. They can exercise that.

You can't create more jobs for an economy where the vast majority of people are hesitant and even afraid to spend and buy.